Front Burner
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Front Burner
Front Burner is a daily news podcast that takes you deep into the stories shaping Canada and the world. Each morning, from Monday to Friday, host Jayme Poisson talks with the smartest people covering the biggest stories to help you understand what’s going on.We’re Canada’s number one news podcast an...
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Is Trump’s MAGA movement in trouble? (FB Exclusive)
‘Make America Great Again' has been Donald Trump’s brand for a decade, riding the movement’s anti-elitist wave into the presidency and remaking the Re...
Trump's vision for a new world order
Every U.S. president releases a national security strategy document about a year into their term, but few have made as big a splash as Donald Trump's,...
Should everybody be taking Ozempic?
It's estimated that as many as 10 per cent of adults in Canada use a GLP-1 type drug like Ozempic. The prescription medicine is used for type 2 diabet...
The politics of the Warner Bros. bidding war
Two of the biggest media companies in the world are going to war over Warner Bros. Discovery, a massive media conglomerate that owns a historic Hollyw...
The 'compassion club' fighting Canada's drug laws
Through 2022 and 2023, two Vancouver activists made international headlines with DULF — the Drug User Liberation Front. In a bid to stop overdose deat...
U.S. Politics! Pentagon scandals, ICE targets Somalis
Today, we bring you a wrap on U.S. politics. We begin with two scandals plaguing U.S. defense secretary Pete Hegseth, from allegations of war crimes t...
Mark Carney: climate friend or foe?
In 2015, as governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney’s ‘Tragedy of the Horizons’ speech made waves in the global climate community. It was seen as...
Will Trump's tariffs survive the Supreme Court?
The U.S. Supreme Court is soon expected to rule on the legality of President Donald Trump's sweeping worldwide tariffs. The court will rule on whether...
National Guard shooting and the CIA’s secret Afghan army
Last week, two National Guard soldiers were shot in Washington, D.C. after they were ambushed by a lone shooter near the airport. One was killed and t...
Should universities have opinions?
Our guest today has taken a long look at an out-of-fashion principle in higher learning – institutional neutrality. Basically it’s the importance of l...
Will the U.S. invade Venezuela?
Over the weekend, Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that the airspace around Venezuela should be considered closed. Venezuela’s foreign ministry r...
Ukraine peace plan,or Russian ‘wish list’?
In a somber speech last week Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned his people that their country was on the brink of a critical choice: eithe...
In Chad, inside camps for Sudan’s refugees
Sudan’s civil war is now the worst displacement crisis in the world, with more than 12 million people currently displaced from their homes. Earlier th...
Hatchet buried? The politics of an Alberta energy deal
On Thursday Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are set to announce the outlines of a plan that could set Alberta and B.C. o...
Gunshots, arson, threats: B.C’s extortion crisis
After meeting on the sidelines of the G20 in South Africa, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have announced they woul...
The hunt for alleged cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding
At a press conference last week U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi laid out fresh allegations against Ryan Wedding, a 44-year-old Canadian and former Oly...
Is the notwithstanding clause bad for democracy?
Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — the so-called "notwithstanding clause" — allows governments, both provincial and federal,...
The ‘sniper tourists’ of Sarajevo
For decades there have been allegations that wealthy foreigners traveled into the Bosnian war, during the siege of Sarajevo, to shoot at besieged civi...
Did Carney just pass a Progressive Conservative budget?
Mark Carney’s Liberals survived a confidence vote on their first budget Monday night.
It was a strange vote, with four members of...
A hinge point for human rights
Over 75 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was established and signed by the newly formed United Nations after the atrocities of the...
If AI is a bubble, what happens when it pops?
With the absolutely massive amounts of money tied up in the AI data centre boom, it's not hard to see why people fear a bubble. That worry has come in...
Canada's complicated 'situationship' with the U.S. (FB Exclusive)
It started with U.S. President Donald Trump's 'quips' about Canada becoming the 51st state. Nearly a year later, the Canada-U.S. relationship has weat...
Why the Epstein emails go way beyond Trump
This week, thousands of pages of documents were released from the estate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Some suggest D...
Poilievre tries to turn the page
The decisions of one Conservative MP to cross the floor, and another to resign have sparked a wider conversation about whether Pierre Poilievre should...
The (former) PM and the pop star
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau is dating the American pop star Katy Perry. He’s been spotted with her on her yacht, singing along at her concert...
Nick Fuentes and the mainstreaming of neo-Nazism
Nick Fuentes and his followers - Groypers - are working to push American conservatism and the MAGA movement into even more dangerous and reactionary t...
Is Pierre Poilievre’s leadership in trouble?
The Conservative party is reeling from a pair of resignations that happened during budget week.
First, Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entr...
FB Exclusive: Trump's re-election, one year later
One year after Trump’s election, the U.S. looks very different than it did in 2024. PM Mark Carney has dubbed Trump “transformative”, and there’s no i...
How Orwell’s words became our reality
Writer George Orwell has had a major impact on the way we talk about and view the world. His book 1984 introduced us to words and phrases like “though...
A big Mamdani win, a big Dem identity crisis
In a huge win for the Democrats, Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City. He ran on an explicitly leftist platform, focused on affordab...
Carney’s budget: generational or generic?
Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberal government have unveiled a budget that calls for $141-billion of new spending in the next five years to pro...
What’s fuelling the war in Sudan?
It’s been two and a half years since a civil war broke out in Sudan after a brutal struggle for power between its army and a powerful paramilitary gro...
Mark Carney’s high-stakes first budget
On Tuesday, Canada’s Minister of Finance will announce his much anticipated budget.
It’s Mark Carney’s first as Prime Minister, an...
Is Alberta headed for a general strike?
Earlier this week Danielle Smith’s UCP government forced teachers back to work after a a three week strike using the notwithstanding clause. This prev...
What did Reagan really believe about tariffs?
Why has U.S. President Donald Trump suspended trade talks with Canada? Why did the U.S. ambassador to Canada level an expletive-laced tirade at Ontari...
In Asia, Canada hopes to fill a Trump-sized void
As Donald Trump ends trade talks with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Asia this week, meeting with leaders, and pitching Canada as a reliable...
How Canadian charities fund illegal West Bank settlements
Since the 1960s, Israel has been building settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank — settlements deemed illegal under intern...
Can Canada’s auto industry survive Trump?
After an anti-tariff ad commissioned by the Ontario government ran during the World Series, U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the plug on negotiation...
Blue Jays bandwagon 101
In the years since their consecutive World Series wins in the early ‘90s, the Toronto Blue Jays have had their ups, downs and bat flips. And heading i...
Is the FBI’s secret war on American activists back?
Through the 1960s, the U.S. government waged a war on Black activism, and activism writ large. It was led by the FBI and its longtime director, J. Edg...